Sadly, we still default to granting more respect to men than women. 8 studies: we're >2x as likely to call male politicians, athletes, teachers, and authors by their last names. It matters: surnames signal higher status. It's long past time to use consistent standards.

Today I have enhanced for you a quite remarkable autochrome - it is a portrait of Louis-Alphonse Davanne (1824-1912), a French chemist & photographer, born over 200 years ago, on 12th April 1824, and this autochrome marks him as the earliest-born person ever to have been

This is SO important. As Heidi Drake 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 and many other teachers report, remark requests are limited by schools for reasons of finance & admin. Often they’re limited to boundary scripts. Others may be just as wrong. This really is the tip of a very unjust & unreliable iceberg.

1113 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. Women are also banned from public parks, gyms and sports clubs. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

Education is light years behind health when it comes to applying research. This is particularly evident in the synthesising and sharing of knowledge about effective practice. When I first read this point from Dirk Van Damme's excellent paper 'The Power of Proofs' I had to read it

Too many Tories were in denial in Bham this week. Denial about the scale of the defeat, about how easy Labour might be to dislodge. But the biggest and most problematic denial of all is the idea the electorate is as conservative as they are. Me for NS 👇 newstatesman.com/comment/2024/1…

6 October 1939 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Klara Jas, was born in Amsterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 August 1943 with her mother Henderika and little brother Isaac. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.

Adam's 18-year old cousin Maayan was murdered on October 7th. Her father Tzachi has been held hostage in Gaza for a year now. Watch and listen.

The world of Dickens and much more, there before our eyes.

Superb thread.

Just to be absolutely clear: hopefully it emerges from the full blog, but these are not things I have to do personally. That's because I work in a great school. But they are very real demands placed on teachers up and down the country, by leaders who need to learn to subtract.

How is this 32 years?

The Taliban have forbidden women in Afghanistan from talking to each other. This is the latest in a series of restrictions since the group seized power three years ago.

An honour to meet the inspirational @MalalaYousafzai today to discuss the importance of women’s rights and girls’ education in Afghanistan. The UK will continue to uphold the rights of women and girls internationally.

100,000 Iranian women march against the Hijab Law, Tehran, 1979

An extraordinary, heartbreaking, act of bravery that has almost certainly cost this woman her entire future, if not her actual life.

Kate Bush "Wuthering Heights" TOTP 1978

BREAKING: America is going back.

In terms of future prospects, English is joint fourth in terms of annual average wage growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6.2%, vs e.g. Physics (6th) at 5.9%. (British Academy report, Qualified for the Future, 2020, DfE’s figures).